A Rum Affair the land of stories whether you're an athlete

whether you're an athlete

as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin

the chief executive's oldest friend

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters

and a couple of murderers to keep things interesting

A Rum Affair the land of stories whether you're an athleteA Rum Affair is an absorbing tale of scientific chicanery and academic intriguecritically acclaimed and a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: Species of plants on the islands off the west coast of Scotland, he said, had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of evidence that the last advance of the ice sheets extended well south